Groups of hosting services

A hosting service is associated with saving and/or sharing specific web content on a web server run by a web hosting supplier. There are different categories of hosting services used for various goals, so let's survey them. Thus, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you wish to establish a web site, mail address accounts, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various file storage providers, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage plans are often supported by exhibiting advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific spell of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally unsuitable explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the workload between different packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous web page hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a type of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some firms offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is appropriate if you wish to share a great number of pictures with chums or colleagues since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a random link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to managing your emails. Some suppliers offer web space hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you want to possess an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and several hundred web page viewers, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to keep as many video clips as you want to without hassling about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to own a website. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mail box accounts, upload videos, etc. At Traffix Web, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that allow you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common email/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for specific web content solely.